Sadness

Jerry Fuchs, drummer from !!! & Juan Maclean is no longer with us.

http://beatcrave.com/2009-11-08/jerry-fuchs-dies-after-fall-down-elevator-shaft/

Exhibit A: More Vitalic

I'm feeling very anxious right now. I've got so much energy that I decided to... blog. It is a gorgeous day (gorges!) and although I already had a promenade on the boulevard du Logan, I need more. I saw my friend Kevin last night with his brother and cousins, I had brunch with Ileya and her husband today -- who else is visiting Chicago now?

Since I was listening to the D is for Disco mix, it's high time I clean out my cupboards of all the albums from the last month or two I've been holding out on you guys with. Exhibit A is Flashmob. I can't really say that it's typical Vitalic because I only have one other album to base him off of, but I can say like OK Cowboy there is a healthy mix of what I would relegate into a dream-acid-jam category as well as the more intense hair-flaunting, armpit-licking, visage-punching intensity I (you) know and love.

Vitalic - Still
Vitalic - Poison Lips

Sweat Rag

It was this day last year that I started writing this post about a mix album with this man with a mane inside that I got back then. I immediately ripped it and lent it out to my cousin who kept it ransom for about 6 months. That's ok. That's ok.... and then I finally got it back and realized what a fantastic mix it was. Wow. I say that I'm starting in general to grown out of the whole uber-dancy genre, but I think that its just that it's retreated into the closet now since at clubs it's getting stale (think Soundbar and Vision, not to be confused with:

David Bowie - Sound and Vision (David Richards Remix 1991)

Back to the point, so I got my D is for Disco, E is for Dancing in the mail, complete with an Aussie perspiration cloth. It is some kind of wonderful. Dare I use the dreaded Nu-Rave to describe it? Plenty of pulsing distortion keys to propel your hips in their natural direction. On disc 2 (the E-disc), it is a jam without fail. Don't believe me? You really have no reason to but just in case:

5. DJ C - Juce (feat: Jorge Stylo)
6. Brodinski - Bad Runner (Crookers Gone Electro Remix)
7. Underworld - Ring Road (Fake Blood Remix)
8. M.I.A. - Jimmy
9. Digitalism - The Pulse (Derdiedas Remix)
10. Shit Disco - I Know Kung Fu (Dabid Rubato Remix)
11. Beni - My Love Sees You

Eines Snippette des Jams

Yeah yeah, some of the songs are a little stale but you really can't blame my laziness in writing this post can you? Don't answer that.

Halloween Jams

I love Halloween. Escapism? Excuse for ostentation? A method to differentiate and filter out the whores? No, it's obviously the music... not that these are necessarily just for the weekend of the 31st. Speaking of which, daylight savings is on Sunday morning. Whoever thought of putting it there was a genius.

PNAU - Donnie Donnie Darko
Clinic - Harmony
The Rakes - Terror
Sufjan Stevens - They are Night Zombies!!!...

I've always try to play this song every year post-Denver:
North American Halloween Prevention Initiative - Do They Know It's Hallowe'en (Wiki about it here)

This year, can we just please, please not play Thriller at every party... especially the banger version?
Well.. maybe just a little bit but mixed in:
Michael Jackson - Thriller (instrumental)

also def Halloween worthy:

The Knife - Silent Shout

The 'crowning' piece of my costume this year with my roommate still needs to be found... tomorrow. What's your costume?

Balki vs. Balki

Stumbling through rock and roll

This morning a buddy of mine asked how I found a certain link. No idea, only that it probably was a result of looking through ffffound or google images. Thinking about it made me think that I should record internet paths and perhaps retrace steps later on. While looking for Devo's 'Girl You Want' after hearing it at The Gossip show (which was badass by the way even though I got twice-groped) I found this joint and furthermore an excellent resource for classic rock n' roll (NOT classic rock): anything from garage to surf to Chubby Checker-ish, lo-fi, 'The' bands. Examples include:

Devo - Girl U Want
The Elite - One Potato <-- The Jam
The Pleasure Seekers - What a Way to Die
The Rockin' Ramrods - She Lied
Supercharger - Sooprize for Mr. Mineo
Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers - I Need you now

So just from that one Mummies post (which I want to believe is a real compilation album) I've been on an old rock n' roll kick right for the past week. I'm going to completely pillage Debbie's stuff.

New News about Old Folks

I recently received an email from mog about how they are going to offer their own version of a music subscription service (see Napster / Rhapsody) but for $5/mo. I don't know how they're going to do it, but maybe they figure not to make as much money on selling music, but rather attract people and suck them into the mog life and continue to rely on ads.

It worked for me.

I haven't really looked at mog in a while other than the weekly digest emails that they send out which are nothing compared to actually browsing the site and doing discovery by myself. Enter the current update on old friends:

New LCD Soundsystem
Jimmy is working on the next album as announced last week and the sneak peek is already here. You can stream it but not download it? We'll just see about that..

LCD Soundsystem - Bye Bye Bayou

Bloc Party to break up
Maybe I'm just perpetuating rumors here, but it makes sense to me. Considering that while on tour Matt Tong had to go to the emergency room due to a collapsed lung makes me think that he can't keep up doing the riffs that they want to do. Notice the intensity of the drumline in Silent Alarm vs. A Weekend in the City and Initimacy which started to use drum machines. I'm just happy I went to a bunch of their shows during the course of their lifetime. Matt was is fantastic.

Flaming Lips to cover Dark Side of the Moon
You know what I'd love more than this is if they were to do their entire show doing this version that I haven't even heard yet. I understand that 'Do You Realize?' is a religious experience, but conceptualize a Coyne version of 'On The Run'. Wow.

Come to Chicago already

Among the many other reasons to learn French, I've never heard Vitalic speak...


I've ordered Flashmob and it's on its way over across the Atlantique. Can't wait.